Clarion 1941-02-06 Vol 20 No 08

THE BETHEL CLARION
Vol. XX No. 8
BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.) February 6, 1941
New Students
Swell BSB
Three Return to Bethel
After Period of Absence
Six students swelled the Bethel
Student Body by being newly en-rolled
on Bethel files since the be-ginning
of the new semester. Three
of the six have previously studied
at Bethel.
Marjorie Jacobson, of Du-luth,
is well known to many
Bethelites. She is taking a
combined college and Chris-tian
Workers' course.
Martha McMillan, of St.
Paul, is a former student who
has returned to finish her col-lege
course.
The third woman to register is
Ruth Ellstrom, who lives in Elli-son
Bay, Wisconsin. She is taking
Christian Workers' course.
The three men who have
just started are Arden W.
Finke, Harry Abrahamson and
Willard Anderson.
Arden has enrolled in both the
college and the Seminary. He has
attended the Northern Baptist
Theological Seminary in Chicago.
Harry Abrahamson of Sioux
Falls, South Dakota, has already
graduated from Sioux Falls Col-lege.
He is studying in the Semi-nary.
Willard is returning to Bethel
after an absence of two years. He
is taking both college and Semi-nary
courses. Other students came
in later, including Lester Pipkin.
"Slang" Originator
Drops Out of School
He is gone!
His strident voice no longer
shall re-echo through the halls;
sweet strains from his saxophone
shall never again issue from be-hind
closed doors; and no more
shall his contributions to class
recitation be the source of stu-dents'
giggles and the faculty's
groans.
He is gone!
He usually read the right book
for the wrong class; was never
known to know the right answer
but readily and cheerfully supplied
the one he did know, such as:
"What do you mean genes are in-visible—
I've seen Gene Nyman!"
Service to the school occupied
many of his hours, and he could
wield a broom, a scrub pail, or a
dustpan with the dexterity of a
professional. It was not uncommon
to hear the silvery notes of his
horn floating through the dark-
Bahuth Speaks At
Missionary Band
Former Mohammedan
Praises America
"Young people who plan to
spread the gospel in Palestine
must thoroughly train themselves
in order to cope with the Moham-medan
situation." This was the
emphasis point in a recent speech
given by Rev. John Bahuth of Pole-stine
to a large Missionary Band
audience.
His talk was punctuated
with humorous incidents which
vividly described traditions
and customs of the Palestine
people. He gave an interesting
survey of the history of Arabi-ans
in Palestine, dwelling es-pecially
on the history of his
own tribe.
He pointed out that the Moham•
medan religion is predominant in
Palestine and missionaries find it
hard to convince the natives of
their error because the natives
have had religious training since
early childhood. Rev. Bahuth added
that at the age of five the Moham-medan
must start memorizing the
Koran, or Mohammedan Bible.
"I am overjoyed with the
freedom I am enjoying here in
America," said Rev. Bahuth.
"It can be compared to none
other."
ness late at night, while lie was
still about his duties. But a new
janitor will take his plaice.
He is gone!
He, who created "College Col-loquialism"
for Bethelites will al-ways
be remembered whenever
"you jeep" or "I'm disillusioned"
are heard. His complete lack of
selfconsciousness, his breezy man-ner
of address, and his casual ac-ceptance
of embarrassing sivations
will not be lost to those who fol-low
in his cortege.
Ziggy is gone—but not forgot-ten!
Campus Calendar
WHAT WHEN
B. W. A Feb. 6
B. B. here Feb. 8
Rochester.
Alexis Feb. 12
B. B. here Feb. 14
Albert Lea.
Mi ss'y Band Feb. 19
Readers Create
Library Boom
Miss Nelson Cites Increase
In Reading, Past Year
The circulation of books in the
Bethel Junior College library was
very large during the first semes-ter
of 1940-41. Miss Nelson's re-ports
show that in comparing the
number of reserve books-3,376-
used last year with the 3,649 used
the first semester this year, an in-crease
is apparent. The librarian
also reports that during the first
semester of last year, 1,757 books
were in general circulation in con-trast
to the 2,27 books this year.
The reading is distributed as fol-lows:
1939-40 1940-41
History
Reserve 1034 1234
Circulation 416 517
Literature
Res. 709 868
Circ. 207 465
Philosophy
Res. 1434 530
Circ. 612 251
Sociology
Res. 95 447
Circulation 59 287
Religion
Res. 415 341
Circ. 155 143
Sciense
Res. 59 31
Circ. 38 41
Friendliness Missionary
To Speak at Chapel
Michigan's Friendliness Mission-ary,
Miss Frances M. Priest, will
be the Chapel speaker Friday, Feb-ruary
7. Since 1929 Miss Priest
has been working among the mi-grant
peoples of her state.
While a teacher in the sub-urbs
of Detroit, she sensed the
need of the foreign speaking
people of this country. Her
work has been among these
people ever since.
Miss Marion A. Beebe has been
secured as speaker for March . She
is a missionary of Karen, Burma,
and will tell about some of her ex-periences
on the field.
Two Teams Bear Bethel Torch
To Red River Valley Tourney
Climaxing ardous weeks of prep-aration
five Bethel students will
leave Thursday, February 6, ac-companied
by Miss Platts, debate
coach, for Fargo, North Dakota to
participate in the eighth annual
Red River Valley Forensic Tourna-ment.
The debaters will enter va-rious
fields of speaking during the
three days of the contest.
Ruth Lundquist and Joyce
Nelson will represent Bethel in
the, women's debate section of
the tournament. Dale Bjork
and Gunnar Hoglund will de-bate
in the men's division.
Miriam Johanson will partici-pate
in the women's extempor
division while all five speak-ers
will enter other contests,
such as discussion, extempor-aneous
and argument.
For several weeks these stu-dents
have been preparing for this
tournament, endeavoring to repre-sent
Bethel to the best of their
ability.
They will make the trip riding
on the Northern Pacific Lines and
will stay in the Metropole Hotel in
Fargo.
Malmsten to Pay
Visit to Illinois
Rev. H. Wyman Malmsten, just
returned from a trip through the
Columbia Conference, is scheduled
to speak in some of the local Twin
City Baptist Churches for the next
week.
Next Sunday, Rev. Malmsten
will leave for Chicago and the
churches of Illinois where he will
represent the school. He expects
to remain in Illinois all of Febru-ary
and the first part of March.
Verbal Warriors to Invade
Fargo Debate Meet Thursday
Zany Ziggy Zips In Zephyr
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MEDITATION
By Carl Lundquist
In the famous Uffizi galleries in
Florence, a tourist, armed with a
guidebook, went up to the curator.
"Are these your masterpieces?" he
asked. "I certainly don't see much
in them myself."
"Sir," said the curator, "these
pictures are not on their trial; it
is the visitors who are on trial."
This incident has often been an
allegory to me in my own evalua-tion
of many of the fine things of
life. On several occasions I have
read a "best seller" with nothing
but surprise at the gullibleness of
the public. A widely acclaimed
composition is a symphony has left
me unmoved. A brief pause be-fore
some masterpiece in a gallery
has been more than sufficient.
Smug and complacent, I have gone
away satisfied that my critical
opinion has been right and that
what all the rest have said has
been wrong.
And I have done the same thing
when listening to preachers. After
hearing some person whom God
has deigned to use greatly in the
salvation of men, I have sought a
few technical flaws and wondered
what the multitudes ever saw in
this man. I have categorized him,
and of course, I have been right
again.
But gradually I am beginning to
realize that I may have been
wrong. For these great creations
of art that have stood the test of
the centuries, and these humble
preachers whom God has used
mightily, really haven't been on
trial at all. It's myself that has
been tried. And each time I have
passed condemnation, I have actu-ally
pronounced judgement upon
myself. I've been found guilty.
Guilty of slavish devotion to tech-nicalities;
guilty of selfish inner
responses; guilty of pride and ar-rogance;
guilty of an unsympa-thetic
spirit; guilty of a narrow
horizon in life. And surely no one
who professes to follow the Christ
on life's largest outlooks, ought to
receive such a verdict.
But I have.
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By Caroline Dilgard
Most Bethel students tell us they
are too busy to pursue hobbies
while in school, but even the busi-est
person could have some worth-while
leisure-time occupation. Al-most
everyone has read about
President Roosevelt's collection of
ship models and of maps. He has,
in fact, always been interested in
anything pertaining to the navy,
and because of this interest his
famous hobby was developed. Sure-ly,
no Bethel student Is busier than
President Roosevelt!
What we need to do is to take
stock of our interests and decide
which one would be of most bene-fit
of we were to make a hobby of
it. -Life becames so boring if we
just study or mingle socially just
with those people whom we see in
school every day. If we are par-ticularly
interested in sociology,
why don't we go down to the dis-trict
around the St. Paul airport
and do a little investigating? The
people there are mostly Mexicans
and Jews who live quite different-ly
from what we do, but they are
friendly and certainly interesting.
Other places in which the social-conscious
person could profitably
spend some time in observation
are the St. Paul City Market dis-trict
and the Negro section around
Central Avenue between Dale and
Rice Streets.
No matter what your special in-terest
is, you can find time to cul-tivate
it even while in college. For
Editorial Comment —
Push Button Radio
. . . . London was quiet to-night
as a heavy fog over the
English Channel kept German
bombing planes on French
soil. ...
Push button radios—Fred War-ing's
popular new radio game—
an inventive genius's contribution
to a lounging public.
. . . • Swing and sway with
the lilting rhythm of Sammy
Kaye. . . .
Push button radio bringing en-tertainment
and relaxation to a
million and a half listeners every
evening. People who listen indol-ently
to anything in the line of
music that is shot across the ether
waves. People whose perception
has been dulled by countless hours
of inferior brass, are listening
every night over push button ra-dios.
.... Say, Georgie, did I ever
tell you about my little nef-ew--
, • • .
instance, Muriel Petersen designs
and makes most of her own clothes
and is consequently one of the
best-dressed girls in school. She
probably spends no more time in
this way than she would if she
were to search through the shops
trying to find ready-made dresses
which would probably have to be
altered in some way before they
could be worn. She has found and
followed this worthwhile hobby
with much satisfaction.
Promptly at nine thirty o'clock
every Monday hundreds of thou-sands
of index fingers push a lit-tle
button labeled KSTP, and as
many minds are swept into a swirl
of nonsense and superficial, forced
humor. And a program distinctly
titled "Nitwits" lures thousands of
gullible women to the belief that
the proper pronunciation of "neph-ew"
is "nefew."
A minor issue, of course, but
nevertheless, when a program
put across with the idea of
nonsensical badinage carries
so much weight with a listen-ing
public, it sets certain forc-es
to thinking of the power
that could be wielded by public
opinion via radio.
Push button radio—it's just a
new novelty of the radio game—
but it is important. Radio is a
factor of modern living, it is an
essential part of every American
home.
It can be a power for good;
it could be a power for bad;
right now it affects an indiffer.
ent balance.
How do your listening prefer-ences
affect this situation?
Mice and Things
By Roger Rendahl
Play Boy's Piety
Pulpit poetious properly propa-gated
by the palpitating personal-ity
preaching prophetic prophecies
properly proclaimed in prolific and
preponderous passion by the pro-portionate
preacher Paulson to pre-cious
pioneering persons with
pleasing perspiring perspecuity.
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Now I am beginning to think
that, after all is said, we find in
a thing pretty much what we look
for. Our own attitudes and habits
of life largely predestine our re-sponse
to life's highest. We can't
change the highest. But we can
change ourselves. Such a change
would in reality be also a spiritual
transformation. The evidence of
that experience would be an en-larged
appreciation for all that God
has deigned to use in the world.
Then we too would see good not
only in the lilies of the field and
in the beautiful temple of Jerusa-lem,
but also in the soul of the
despised harlot and in the cracked
well of Samaria.
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Striped Sermons
For stupendous sesquipedalian-isms
sufficiently similar to Stu-dents
Standard Dictionary see Sir
C. Stripe; severely scaring scowl-ing
studious scholars and soon
saddening sincere students with
seething strong sadistic cynicisml-cal
eschatological stipends.
Larson's Lulu
Little laughable latitudinal Lar-son
looks longingly lately for lus-cious
loving "Lollypop" while lisp-ing
languid likeable lazy language
legitimately laying in long lanes
large lady Lulus from literary leg-acies.
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Canadian Rockies ON MI
By Paul Anderson
Rearing their rugged heads far
above evergreen forests of spruce
and fir trees, the Canadian Rock-ies
present a picture that is not
soon forgotten. Rugged does not
seem to be strong enough to de-scribe
them. They are utterly mag-nificant;
they are colossal, majes-tic.
The most beautiful scene in
the entire Canadian Rockies is
not man-made Jasper Park
Lodge, or Banff Hot Springs
Hotel, or Lake Louise Chatau,
all beautiful in themselves,
but it is the environment that
surrounds these places.
Nestled in between towering
cliffs and originating in a huge
glacier, Lake Louise presents a
picture unbelievable unless actu-ally
seen. One can see reflected in
the emerald-green water the sur-rounding
peaks reaching, seeming-ly,
down to the bowels of the
earth. At the far end of the lake,
some five or six miles distant, Vic-toria
Glacier is seen tapering
down, and merging into the surface
of the "gem" of the Rockies, Lake
Louise.
About a hundred miles north of
Lake Louise, the Columbia Ice-fields
present their unique picture.
This is all one huge icefield, with
branches, or glaciers, coming from
it. The Columbia Icefield is an im-mense
area, some thousands of
square miles being covered by its
surface. The average elevation of
the Icefield is about ten thousand
feet above sea level. It is a level
plateau of ice, and reaches almost
to the top of those peaks that sur-round
it.
Athabaska Glacier has its
origin in the Columbia Icefield.
This glacier, a river of ice,
extends from that huge ice-field
down to the Banff-Jasper
highway. It is in itself a spec-tacle
to behold. One must be
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careful of the crecasses if one
is walking on the glaciers.
These fissures in the ice are
narrow, but they are almost
bottomless, some of them no
more than two or three feet
wide, but several hundred feet
deep.
The mighty Athabaska River
has its headwaters in this "chunk"
of ice. The foot of this glacier is
a wall of ice about fifteen feet
high. As the warm weather comes
after a severe winter, an edge of
this wall breaks off. It is from this
break-oft that the stream of the
Athabaska has its origin. The
break-off produces a cave-like for-mation
in the ice. A long tunnel
extends into the heart of the gla-cier.
This is the beginning of the
stream bed for the river.
One of the most unforgettable
sights that is seen on the Atha-baska
Glacier was in this cave of
ice. A person could easily walk
into it for a distance of about
twenty-five feet, before the stream
cut him off, while wending its way
into the heart of the ice. One
could look into the chasm from
which the icy water was rapidly
surging and see the odd formations
left by the rushing currents. But,
if one would look above his head,
the ice looked to be lit with some
of the new type flourescent lights.
It was of the most beautiful trans-lucent
blue color imaginable. No-where
have I seen any blue color
so pure and so perfect. There was
not a flaw in it. Vivid recollec-tions
remain of these glories of
God's great handiwork.
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Trials-Tribulation
Terrorize Students
"Ain't we got hard trials . . .
and great tribulation?" And no-body
corrected their grammar!
For that exclamation concluded a
silent, weary week of cramming,
anticipation, and deflation. For a
long week even the most fastidious
Bethelites rushed out of quizzes,
their hair rumpled, and their eyes
wildly bewildered.
Six long days and six short
nights, and then tribulation was
over and the trial begun. The red
pencil hovered over paper after pa-per
was scored A, B, C, . . . .
acquited, . . . . not guilty . . . .
not guilty of wasting time and ef-fort
. . . . honorable discharge
. . . . and then amongst the A's,
the B's, the C's the judge scored
D . . .. and' F. Failure, guilt . . . .
guilty! Guilty of misuse of time,
of sloppy effort.
And then resolve, the glorious
resolve of renewed effort . . . . and
maybe next time the judge will
score an A or a B or a C. Maybe.
Seminary Juniors
Eat - Make Merry
Relaxing momentarily from their
studies, the 'Seminary Junior class,
together with guests, met for an
informal dinner party at the beau-tiful
West Twin Inn. The quiet at-mosphere,
the excellent repast, and
the charming guests all contribut-ed
to making a memorable eve-ning
for all.
An impromptu program, presid-ed
over by Olaf Nelson, provided
the entertainment. The highlight
of the evening was Mr. R. K. C.
Paulson's description of his guest
as the ideal preacher's wife.
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Glen Anderson has been hired as
dishwasher for the Boarding Club
.. . . He replaces Francis McOlash
who had worked the maximum
time allowed . . .. Elwood Ander-son
and Paul Anderson have un-dertaken
the duties of Michael
Parrish who left school . .. . Sev-eral
students have been ill with
the flu . . . . The annual sleigh ride
party of the school was a big suc-cess
. . . many faces were wash-ed
. . .. Several casualties result-ed:
Lorice Brask . . . . dislocated
shoulder, Archie Johnson . . . .
broken nose . . . . many bruises
and sore muscles . . . . Eunice An-derson
bruised her two forearms
badly and cracked a bone in her
ankle, while racing in gym class.
Cliff to Cop Candids
Cliff Bjorklund, official photog-rapher
for the Spire, will be shoot-ing
everything good to shoot. He
is going to start snapping pictures
for the annual on an air-raid scale,
so keep your hats and ties straight.
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Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Concordia Scalps
Bethel Indians
Red and White Downed
55-40 in Return Game
The Bethel Indians were out-pointed
by Concordia on Saturday,
January 25, by a score of 55-40.
The game, played on the Comets'
floor, was close enough all the way
to keep the interest of the spec-tators.
The game started fast with sev-eral
quick baskets. Both teams
clamped down on defensive play
and fouls became numerous.
"Shine" Swanson was ejected via
the personal route before the half-time
period. The mid-point score
was 29-19 in favor of Concordia.
The Swedes came back strong in
the third quarter to draw within
three points of the Comets. But
the Concordia hoopsters connected
with some spectacular shots in the
final period to assure them a vic-tory
by a 55-40 score.
Captain Gordon Peterson, who
left the game in the fourth quarter
with four personals, collected
eleven points to cap high score
honors for Bethel. Fuerniss and
Heyne garnered fifteen apiece for
the victors.
Summary:
BETHEL
F.G. F.T. P.F. Pts.
Swanson 3 0 4 6
Gustafson 0 0 0 0
Nyman 3 2 3 8
Halvorsen 0 0 0 0
B. Beck 3 0 3 6
G. Peterson 3 5 4 11
Appelquist 3 1 2 7
Marquardt 1 0 3 2
— — —
16 8 19 40
CONCORDIA
F.G. F.T. PaF. Pts.
Fuerniss 7 1 4 15
Schweiger 1 0 0 2
Priess 0 0 4 0
Werning 2 1 1 5
Kluckman 3 2 3 8
Beck 0 1 1 1
Wahiers 3 1 2 7
Bentrup 1 0 0 2
Heyne 5 5 2 15
Spooner 0 0 0 0
— — — —
22 11 17 55
We Have 'em . .
Majorettes
Stepping as high as possible, our
own Margaret Erickson gave an ex-cellent
drum majorette exhibition
during the half-time intermission
of the Bethel-Austin game recent-ly.
She caught the fancy of the
crowd as she strutted out to the
middle of the floor dressed in her
silk majorette dress. The whirling
baton, at times, seemed to be only
a silvery disc. The school band ac-companied
Miss Erickson as she
went through her baton twirling
paces.
Photo-Finish Seen
In Frosh Hoop Race
A heated race is on in the frosh
gym classes, according to Coach
Adam. The mid-point in the sea-son's
basketball schedule has been
passed and all the frosh teams are
virtually tied.
The Cowboys and the Plugs
have played fourteen games to
date. Each team has a record
of seven wins and seven loss-es.
Willis Wessman, Cowboy
hotshot, is leading in scoring
honors with a grand total of 90
points. Youngquist tops the
Plugs with 84 points.
The Bodgers have a slight edge
over the Gophers in games won as
the score stands at eight victories
to six in favor of the former. Two
of the Gophers are leading the
class scoring. Paul Anderson has
garnered 75 points while Lloyd
Thompson has collected a total of
73 counters.
The two sophomore teams
are not so evenly matched.
The Supermen have trounced
the Dead , End Kids eleven
times while losing only five
contests. Gunnar Hoglund of
the leaders has swished the
net for a total of 95 points.
Handball Tourney
Would-be handball aspirants are
going to have their skill tested in
the next few days. A handball
tourney is under way in the Semi-nary
gym. In the tournament those
losers of the first round draw will
be able to have another chance in
a consolation bracket.
Bethel Hoop Co-eds
Down Church Team
On Friday evening, January 31,
the Bethel girls chalked up a 26 to
14 victory in a game with the girls
from the First Swedish Baptist
Church of Minneapolis.
"Ginny" Carlson of Bethel again
took the scoring honors by making
8 points. Betty White, another
Bethelite, was second with 7
points.
Alrik "Boomp" Blomquist did his
part for both sides in the role of
referee.
The following games have been
scheduled for the Bethel girls as
7 o'clock preliminaries to the regu-lar
boys games:
Saturday, February 8—Elim
Swedish Bapt., Minneapolis.
Friday, February 14— Farm
School.
Friday, February 21—Pros.
pect Park Bapt., St. Paul.
Saturday, February 22—Min-nehaha
Bapt., Minneapolis.
Another Close Race—
Girls Gym Classes
Baskets here, freethrows there,
And fouls, too, everywhere.
And that gives you a little idea
of what's happening now in the
girls' gym classes.
The Buzzers are leading in
the freshman class tourney,
having won seven games. The
Infants are close behind with
six wins.
The sophomores and Christian
Workers Course girls played their
Bethel Suffers
Fourth Title- Defeat
Austin Trounces Swedes
46-22 For Fifth Victory
The local hoopsters, unable to
stave off a determined attack, fell
victims to a fast breaking Austin
quint by a score of 47-22. The
game was played in the Bethel
gym last Friday, January 31.
The home team was handicap-ped
considerably by the absence
of Captain Gordon Peterson, who
has an arm infection, and Bob
Beck, lost for the season through
ineligibility. The team was fur-ther
hampered early in the third
quarter when "Shine" Swanson
left the game with four personals.
The Austin club got away to a
fast start and had piled up a com-fortable
25-10 lead by half-time.
The game was in the bag the rest
of the way, as the Austin buoket-eers
had an unerring eye for the
basket. The final score 'was 47-22.
Gavin, pint-sized Austin marks-man,
connected for thirteen points
to pace the victors, while Nyman
high-scored for the Indians with a
ten-point total.
Summary:
BETHEL
F.G. ,F.T. PJF. Pts.
Swanson 1 2 4 4
Osterman 0 0 0 0
Marquardt 0 0 0 0
Larson 0 1 2 1
Nyman 4 2 2 10
Appelquist 1 1 1 3
Gustafson 1 0 1 2
Halvorsen 1 0 1 2
Widen 0 0 1 0
Norstrom 0 0 1 0
8 6 13 22
AUSTIN
F.G. F.T. PaF. Pts.
Enright 4 1 3 9
Thompson 2 0 3 4
Nelson 2 1 2 5
Stier 1 0 1 2
Winn 4 2 0 10
Gavin 6 1 2 13
Cashman 0 0 3 0
Braun 2 0 0 4
Dunlap 0 0 1 0
Bisbee 0 0 0 0
21 5 16 47
first game this past week, a game
won by the sophomores.
A one-game lead in both
brackets means that it's any
team's tournament.
The Basketball Girl
There's a hush on down at our house, and we all speak soft and low—
As my music teacher'd put it, we are pianissimo.
We have quit our daily scraippin' and we don't yell things at all,
Now that Sister Marietta's took to playing basketball.
The baby's scared and quiet, and his whoops are few and faint;
Cousin Hannah's quit her jawin' and's behavin' like a saint;
And even Pa and Mother ain't as harsh-like with their call
Now that Sister Marietta's took to playin' basketball.
Sister used to be a ninny, till she tackled that new game,
But now she's got a muscle that'd put a man to shame;
And we never stop to argue with a girl that's on the maul,
Now that Sister Marietta's took to playin' basketball.
She has had her picture taken, with her team of husky champs,
And from the sportin' pages she don't ever take her lamps;
And when she gets to glarin', why, we hike for timber tall,
Now that Sister Marietta's took to playin' basketball.
All the candy givin' fellows she has chased off long ago,
And, unless he eats raw beefsteak, any beau don't stand a show;
If she walks up to the altar, Pa declares, the man'll crawl,
Now that Sister Marietta's took to playin' basketball.
—Denver Republican.

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THE BETHEL CLARION
Vol. XX No. 8
BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.) February 6, 1941
New Students
Swell BSB
Three Return to Bethel
After Period of Absence
Six students swelled the Bethel
Student Body by being newly en-rolled
on Bethel files since the be-ginning
of the new semester. Three
of the six have previously studied
at Bethel.
Marjorie Jacobson, of Du-luth,
is well known to many
Bethelites. She is taking a
combined college and Chris-tian
Workers' course.
Martha McMillan, of St.
Paul, is a former student who
has returned to finish her col-lege
course.
The third woman to register is
Ruth Ellstrom, who lives in Elli-son
Bay, Wisconsin. She is taking
Christian Workers' course.
The three men who have
just started are Arden W.
Finke, Harry Abrahamson and
Willard Anderson.
Arden has enrolled in both the
college and the Seminary. He has
attended the Northern Baptist
Theological Seminary in Chicago.
Harry Abrahamson of Sioux
Falls, South Dakota, has already
graduated from Sioux Falls Col-lege.
He is studying in the Semi-nary.
Willard is returning to Bethel
after an absence of two years. He
is taking both college and Semi-nary
courses. Other students came
in later, including Lester Pipkin.
"Slang" Originator
Drops Out of School
He is gone!
His strident voice no longer
shall re-echo through the halls;
sweet strains from his saxophone
shall never again issue from be-hind
closed doors; and no more
shall his contributions to class
recitation be the source of stu-dents'
giggles and the faculty's
groans.
He is gone!
He usually read the right book
for the wrong class; was never
known to know the right answer
but readily and cheerfully supplied
the one he did know, such as:
"What do you mean genes are in-visible—
I've seen Gene Nyman!"
Service to the school occupied
many of his hours, and he could
wield a broom, a scrub pail, or a
dustpan with the dexterity of a
professional. It was not uncommon
to hear the silvery notes of his
horn floating through the dark-
Bahuth Speaks At
Missionary Band
Former Mohammedan
Praises America
"Young people who plan to
spread the gospel in Palestine
must thoroughly train themselves
in order to cope with the Moham-medan
situation." This was the
emphasis point in a recent speech
given by Rev. John Bahuth of Pole-stine
to a large Missionary Band
audience.
His talk was punctuated
with humorous incidents which
vividly described traditions
and customs of the Palestine
people. He gave an interesting
survey of the history of Arabi-ans
in Palestine, dwelling es-pecially
on the history of his
own tribe.
He pointed out that the Moham•
medan religion is predominant in
Palestine and missionaries find it
hard to convince the natives of
their error because the natives
have had religious training since
early childhood. Rev. Bahuth added
that at the age of five the Moham-medan
must start memorizing the
Koran, or Mohammedan Bible.
"I am overjoyed with the
freedom I am enjoying here in
America," said Rev. Bahuth.
"It can be compared to none
other."
ness late at night, while lie was
still about his duties. But a new
janitor will take his plaice.
He is gone!
He, who created "College Col-loquialism"
for Bethelites will al-ways
be remembered whenever
"you jeep" or "I'm disillusioned"
are heard. His complete lack of
selfconsciousness, his breezy man-ner
of address, and his casual ac-ceptance
of embarrassing sivations
will not be lost to those who fol-low
in his cortege.
Ziggy is gone—but not forgot-ten!
Campus Calendar
WHAT WHEN
B. W. A Feb. 6
B. B. here Feb. 8
Rochester.
Alexis Feb. 12
B. B. here Feb. 14
Albert Lea.
Mi ss'y Band Feb. 19
Readers Create
Library Boom
Miss Nelson Cites Increase
In Reading, Past Year
The circulation of books in the
Bethel Junior College library was
very large during the first semes-ter
of 1940-41. Miss Nelson's re-ports
show that in comparing the
number of reserve books-3,376-
used last year with the 3,649 used
the first semester this year, an in-crease
is apparent. The librarian
also reports that during the first
semester of last year, 1,757 books
were in general circulation in con-trast
to the 2,27 books this year.
The reading is distributed as fol-lows:
1939-40 1940-41
History
Reserve 1034 1234
Circulation 416 517
Literature
Res. 709 868
Circ. 207 465
Philosophy
Res. 1434 530
Circ. 612 251
Sociology
Res. 95 447
Circulation 59 287
Religion
Res. 415 341
Circ. 155 143
Sciense
Res. 59 31
Circ. 38 41
Friendliness Missionary
To Speak at Chapel
Michigan's Friendliness Mission-ary,
Miss Frances M. Priest, will
be the Chapel speaker Friday, Feb-ruary
7. Since 1929 Miss Priest
has been working among the mi-grant
peoples of her state.
While a teacher in the sub-urbs
of Detroit, she sensed the
need of the foreign speaking
people of this country. Her
work has been among these
people ever since.
Miss Marion A. Beebe has been
secured as speaker for March . She
is a missionary of Karen, Burma,
and will tell about some of her ex-periences
on the field.
Two Teams Bear Bethel Torch
To Red River Valley Tourney
Climaxing ardous weeks of prep-aration
five Bethel students will
leave Thursday, February 6, ac-companied
by Miss Platts, debate
coach, for Fargo, North Dakota to
participate in the eighth annual
Red River Valley Forensic Tourna-ment.
The debaters will enter va-rious
fields of speaking during the
three days of the contest.
Ruth Lundquist and Joyce
Nelson will represent Bethel in
the, women's debate section of
the tournament. Dale Bjork
and Gunnar Hoglund will de-bate
in the men's division.
Miriam Johanson will partici-pate
in the women's extempor
division while all five speak-ers
will enter other contests,
such as discussion, extempor-aneous
and argument.
For several weeks these stu-dents
have been preparing for this
tournament, endeavoring to repre-sent
Bethel to the best of their
ability.
They will make the trip riding
on the Northern Pacific Lines and
will stay in the Metropole Hotel in
Fargo.
Malmsten to Pay
Visit to Illinois
Rev. H. Wyman Malmsten, just
returned from a trip through the
Columbia Conference, is scheduled
to speak in some of the local Twin
City Baptist Churches for the next
week.
Next Sunday, Rev. Malmsten
will leave for Chicago and the
churches of Illinois where he will
represent the school. He expects
to remain in Illinois all of Febru-ary
and the first part of March.
Verbal Warriors to Invade
Fargo Debate Meet Thursday
Zany Ziggy Zips In Zephyr
Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
MEDITATION
By Carl Lundquist
In the famous Uffizi galleries in
Florence, a tourist, armed with a
guidebook, went up to the curator.
"Are these your masterpieces?" he
asked. "I certainly don't see much
in them myself."
"Sir," said the curator, "these
pictures are not on their trial; it
is the visitors who are on trial."
This incident has often been an
allegory to me in my own evalua-tion
of many of the fine things of
life. On several occasions I have
read a "best seller" with nothing
but surprise at the gullibleness of
the public. A widely acclaimed
composition is a symphony has left
me unmoved. A brief pause be-fore
some masterpiece in a gallery
has been more than sufficient.
Smug and complacent, I have gone
away satisfied that my critical
opinion has been right and that
what all the rest have said has
been wrong.
And I have done the same thing
when listening to preachers. After
hearing some person whom God
has deigned to use greatly in the
salvation of men, I have sought a
few technical flaws and wondered
what the multitudes ever saw in
this man. I have categorized him,
and of course, I have been right
again.
But gradually I am beginning to
realize that I may have been
wrong. For these great creations
of art that have stood the test of
the centuries, and these humble
preachers whom God has used
mightily, really haven't been on
trial at all. It's myself that has
been tried. And each time I have
passed condemnation, I have actu-ally
pronounced judgement upon
myself. I've been found guilty.
Guilty of slavish devotion to tech-nicalities;
guilty of selfish inner
responses; guilty of pride and ar-rogance;
guilty of an unsympa-thetic
spirit; guilty of a narrow
horizon in life. And surely no one
who professes to follow the Christ
on life's largest outlooks, ought to
receive such a verdict.
But I have.
dia44 ..1104,14
By Caroline Dilgard
Most Bethel students tell us they
are too busy to pursue hobbies
while in school, but even the busi-est
person could have some worth-while
leisure-time occupation. Al-most
everyone has read about
President Roosevelt's collection of
ship models and of maps. He has,
in fact, always been interested in
anything pertaining to the navy,
and because of this interest his
famous hobby was developed. Sure-ly,
no Bethel student Is busier than
President Roosevelt!
What we need to do is to take
stock of our interests and decide
which one would be of most bene-fit
of we were to make a hobby of
it. -Life becames so boring if we
just study or mingle socially just
with those people whom we see in
school every day. If we are par-ticularly
interested in sociology,
why don't we go down to the dis-trict
around the St. Paul airport
and do a little investigating? The
people there are mostly Mexicans
and Jews who live quite different-ly
from what we do, but they are
friendly and certainly interesting.
Other places in which the social-conscious
person could profitably
spend some time in observation
are the St. Paul City Market dis-trict
and the Negro section around
Central Avenue between Dale and
Rice Streets.
No matter what your special in-terest
is, you can find time to cul-tivate
it even while in college. For
Editorial Comment —
Push Button Radio
. . . . London was quiet to-night
as a heavy fog over the
English Channel kept German
bombing planes on French
soil. ...
Push button radios—Fred War-ing's
popular new radio game—
an inventive genius's contribution
to a lounging public.
. . . • Swing and sway with
the lilting rhythm of Sammy
Kaye. . . .
Push button radio bringing en-tertainment
and relaxation to a
million and a half listeners every
evening. People who listen indol-ently
to anything in the line of
music that is shot across the ether
waves. People whose perception
has been dulled by countless hours
of inferior brass, are listening
every night over push button ra-dios.
.... Say, Georgie, did I ever
tell you about my little nef-ew--
, • • .
instance, Muriel Petersen designs
and makes most of her own clothes
and is consequently one of the
best-dressed girls in school. She
probably spends no more time in
this way than she would if she
were to search through the shops
trying to find ready-made dresses
which would probably have to be
altered in some way before they
could be worn. She has found and
followed this worthwhile hobby
with much satisfaction.
Promptly at nine thirty o'clock
every Monday hundreds of thou-sands
of index fingers push a lit-tle
button labeled KSTP, and as
many minds are swept into a swirl
of nonsense and superficial, forced
humor. And a program distinctly
titled "Nitwits" lures thousands of
gullible women to the belief that
the proper pronunciation of "neph-ew"
is "nefew."
A minor issue, of course, but
nevertheless, when a program
put across with the idea of
nonsensical badinage carries
so much weight with a listen-ing
public, it sets certain forc-es
to thinking of the power
that could be wielded by public
opinion via radio.
Push button radio—it's just a
new novelty of the radio game—
but it is important. Radio is a
factor of modern living, it is an
essential part of every American
home.
It can be a power for good;
it could be a power for bad;
right now it affects an indiffer.
ent balance.
How do your listening prefer-ences
affect this situation?
Mice and Things
By Roger Rendahl
Play Boy's Piety
Pulpit poetious properly propa-gated
by the palpitating personal-ity
preaching prophetic prophecies
properly proclaimed in prolific and
preponderous passion by the pro-portionate
preacher Paulson to pre-cious
pioneering persons with
pleasing perspiring perspecuity.
THE BETHEL CLARION
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Published by students every other Tuesday
except in July and August.
Now I am beginning to think
that, after all is said, we find in
a thing pretty much what we look
for. Our own attitudes and habits
of life largely predestine our re-sponse
to life's highest. We can't
change the highest. But we can
change ourselves. Such a change
would in reality be also a spiritual
transformation. The evidence of
that experience would be an en-larged
appreciation for all that God
has deigned to use in the world.
Then we too would see good not
only in the lilies of the field and
in the beautiful temple of Jerusa-lem,
but also in the soul of the
despised harlot and in the cracked
well of Samaria.
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Striped Sermons
For stupendous sesquipedalian-isms
sufficiently similar to Stu-dents
Standard Dictionary see Sir
C. Stripe; severely scaring scowl-ing
studious scholars and soon
saddening sincere students with
seething strong sadistic cynicisml-cal
eschatological stipends.
Larson's Lulu
Little laughable latitudinal Lar-son
looks longingly lately for lus-cious
loving "Lollypop" while lisp-ing
languid likeable lazy language
legitimately laying in long lanes
large lady Lulus from literary leg-acies.
THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
Canadian Rockies ON MI
By Paul Anderson
Rearing their rugged heads far
above evergreen forests of spruce
and fir trees, the Canadian Rock-ies
present a picture that is not
soon forgotten. Rugged does not
seem to be strong enough to de-scribe
them. They are utterly mag-nificant;
they are colossal, majes-tic.
The most beautiful scene in
the entire Canadian Rockies is
not man-made Jasper Park
Lodge, or Banff Hot Springs
Hotel, or Lake Louise Chatau,
all beautiful in themselves,
but it is the environment that
surrounds these places.
Nestled in between towering
cliffs and originating in a huge
glacier, Lake Louise presents a
picture unbelievable unless actu-ally
seen. One can see reflected in
the emerald-green water the sur-rounding
peaks reaching, seeming-ly,
down to the bowels of the
earth. At the far end of the lake,
some five or six miles distant, Vic-toria
Glacier is seen tapering
down, and merging into the surface
of the "gem" of the Rockies, Lake
Louise.
About a hundred miles north of
Lake Louise, the Columbia Ice-fields
present their unique picture.
This is all one huge icefield, with
branches, or glaciers, coming from
it. The Columbia Icefield is an im-mense
area, some thousands of
square miles being covered by its
surface. The average elevation of
the Icefield is about ten thousand
feet above sea level. It is a level
plateau of ice, and reaches almost
to the top of those peaks that sur-round
it.
Athabaska Glacier has its
origin in the Columbia Icefield.
This glacier, a river of ice,
extends from that huge ice-field
down to the Banff-Jasper
highway. It is in itself a spec-tacle
to behold. One must be
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careful of the crecasses if one
is walking on the glaciers.
These fissures in the ice are
narrow, but they are almost
bottomless, some of them no
more than two or three feet
wide, but several hundred feet
deep.
The mighty Athabaska River
has its headwaters in this "chunk"
of ice. The foot of this glacier is
a wall of ice about fifteen feet
high. As the warm weather comes
after a severe winter, an edge of
this wall breaks off. It is from this
break-oft that the stream of the
Athabaska has its origin. The
break-off produces a cave-like for-mation
in the ice. A long tunnel
extends into the heart of the gla-cier.
This is the beginning of the
stream bed for the river.
One of the most unforgettable
sights that is seen on the Atha-baska
Glacier was in this cave of
ice. A person could easily walk
into it for a distance of about
twenty-five feet, before the stream
cut him off, while wending its way
into the heart of the ice. One
could look into the chasm from
which the icy water was rapidly
surging and see the odd formations
left by the rushing currents. But,
if one would look above his head,
the ice looked to be lit with some
of the new type flourescent lights.
It was of the most beautiful trans-lucent
blue color imaginable. No-where
have I seen any blue color
so pure and so perfect. There was
not a flaw in it. Vivid recollec-tions
remain of these glories of
God's great handiwork.
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Dyeing Co.
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GENERAL HARDWARE
F. 0. Hagen J. W. Hagen
755 No. Snelling Ave., St. Paul
Westlund's
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Trials-Tribulation
Terrorize Students
"Ain't we got hard trials . . .
and great tribulation?" And no-body
corrected their grammar!
For that exclamation concluded a
silent, weary week of cramming,
anticipation, and deflation. For a
long week even the most fastidious
Bethelites rushed out of quizzes,
their hair rumpled, and their eyes
wildly bewildered.
Six long days and six short
nights, and then tribulation was
over and the trial begun. The red
pencil hovered over paper after pa-per
was scored A, B, C, . . . .
acquited, . . . . not guilty . . . .
not guilty of wasting time and ef-fort
. . . . honorable discharge
. . . . and then amongst the A's,
the B's, the C's the judge scored
D . . .. and' F. Failure, guilt . . . .
guilty! Guilty of misuse of time,
of sloppy effort.
And then resolve, the glorious
resolve of renewed effort . . . . and
maybe next time the judge will
score an A or a B or a C. Maybe.
Seminary Juniors
Eat - Make Merry
Relaxing momentarily from their
studies, the 'Seminary Junior class,
together with guests, met for an
informal dinner party at the beau-tiful
West Twin Inn. The quiet at-mosphere,
the excellent repast, and
the charming guests all contribut-ed
to making a memorable eve-ning
for all.
An impromptu program, presid-ed
over by Olaf Nelson, provided
the entertainment. The highlight
of the evening was Mr. R. K. C.
Paulson's description of his guest
as the ideal preacher's wife.
S. Berglund Lumber Co.
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1171 Snelling Ave. No.
Campus Code
Glen Anderson has been hired as
dishwasher for the Boarding Club
.. . . He replaces Francis McOlash
who had worked the maximum
time allowed . . .. Elwood Ander-son
and Paul Anderson have un-dertaken
the duties of Michael
Parrish who left school . .. . Sev-eral
students have been ill with
the flu . . . . The annual sleigh ride
party of the school was a big suc-cess
. . . many faces were wash-ed
. . .. Several casualties result-ed:
Lorice Brask . . . . dislocated
shoulder, Archie Johnson . . . .
broken nose . . . . many bruises
and sore muscles . . . . Eunice An-derson
bruised her two forearms
badly and cracked a bone in her
ankle, while racing in gym class.
Cliff to Cop Candids
Cliff Bjorklund, official photog-rapher
for the Spire, will be shoot-ing
everything good to shoot. He
is going to start snapping pictures
for the annual on an air-raid scale,
so keep your hats and ties straight.
Rudeen Food Market
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Have Your Shoe Doctoring
done at
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DOELTZ DRUG STORE
Midway Pkwy. & Pascal Ave.
Drug Needs Photo Finishing
Refreshments
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Now located at
1337 Pascal Avenue
Free Delivery
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OPTOMETRISTS
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Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Concordia Scalps
Bethel Indians
Red and White Downed
55-40 in Return Game
The Bethel Indians were out-pointed
by Concordia on Saturday,
January 25, by a score of 55-40.
The game, played on the Comets'
floor, was close enough all the way
to keep the interest of the spec-tators.
The game started fast with sev-eral
quick baskets. Both teams
clamped down on defensive play
and fouls became numerous.
"Shine" Swanson was ejected via
the personal route before the half-time
period. The mid-point score
was 29-19 in favor of Concordia.
The Swedes came back strong in
the third quarter to draw within
three points of the Comets. But
the Concordia hoopsters connected
with some spectacular shots in the
final period to assure them a vic-tory
by a 55-40 score.
Captain Gordon Peterson, who
left the game in the fourth quarter
with four personals, collected
eleven points to cap high score
honors for Bethel. Fuerniss and
Heyne garnered fifteen apiece for
the victors.
Summary:
BETHEL
F.G. F.T. P.F. Pts.
Swanson 3 0 4 6
Gustafson 0 0 0 0
Nyman 3 2 3 8
Halvorsen 0 0 0 0
B. Beck 3 0 3 6
G. Peterson 3 5 4 11
Appelquist 3 1 2 7
Marquardt 1 0 3 2
— — —
16 8 19 40
CONCORDIA
F.G. F.T. PaF. Pts.
Fuerniss 7 1 4 15
Schweiger 1 0 0 2
Priess 0 0 4 0
Werning 2 1 1 5
Kluckman 3 2 3 8
Beck 0 1 1 1
Wahiers 3 1 2 7
Bentrup 1 0 0 2
Heyne 5 5 2 15
Spooner 0 0 0 0
— — — —
22 11 17 55
We Have 'em . .
Majorettes
Stepping as high as possible, our
own Margaret Erickson gave an ex-cellent
drum majorette exhibition
during the half-time intermission
of the Bethel-Austin game recent-ly.
She caught the fancy of the
crowd as she strutted out to the
middle of the floor dressed in her
silk majorette dress. The whirling
baton, at times, seemed to be only
a silvery disc. The school band ac-companied
Miss Erickson as she
went through her baton twirling
paces.
Photo-Finish Seen
In Frosh Hoop Race
A heated race is on in the frosh
gym classes, according to Coach
Adam. The mid-point in the sea-son's
basketball schedule has been
passed and all the frosh teams are
virtually tied.
The Cowboys and the Plugs
have played fourteen games to
date. Each team has a record
of seven wins and seven loss-es.
Willis Wessman, Cowboy
hotshot, is leading in scoring
honors with a grand total of 90
points. Youngquist tops the
Plugs with 84 points.
The Bodgers have a slight edge
over the Gophers in games won as
the score stands at eight victories
to six in favor of the former. Two
of the Gophers are leading the
class scoring. Paul Anderson has
garnered 75 points while Lloyd
Thompson has collected a total of
73 counters.
The two sophomore teams
are not so evenly matched.
The Supermen have trounced
the Dead , End Kids eleven
times while losing only five
contests. Gunnar Hoglund of
the leaders has swished the
net for a total of 95 points.
Handball Tourney
Would-be handball aspirants are
going to have their skill tested in
the next few days. A handball
tourney is under way in the Semi-nary
gym. In the tournament those
losers of the first round draw will
be able to have another chance in
a consolation bracket.
Bethel Hoop Co-eds
Down Church Team
On Friday evening, January 31,
the Bethel girls chalked up a 26 to
14 victory in a game with the girls
from the First Swedish Baptist
Church of Minneapolis.
"Ginny" Carlson of Bethel again
took the scoring honors by making
8 points. Betty White, another
Bethelite, was second with 7
points.
Alrik "Boomp" Blomquist did his
part for both sides in the role of
referee.
The following games have been
scheduled for the Bethel girls as
7 o'clock preliminaries to the regu-lar
boys games:
Saturday, February 8—Elim
Swedish Bapt., Minneapolis.
Friday, February 14— Farm
School.
Friday, February 21—Pros.
pect Park Bapt., St. Paul.
Saturday, February 22—Min-nehaha
Bapt., Minneapolis.
Another Close Race—
Girls Gym Classes
Baskets here, freethrows there,
And fouls, too, everywhere.
And that gives you a little idea
of what's happening now in the
girls' gym classes.
The Buzzers are leading in
the freshman class tourney,
having won seven games. The
Infants are close behind with
six wins.
The sophomores and Christian
Workers Course girls played their
Bethel Suffers
Fourth Title- Defeat
Austin Trounces Swedes
46-22 For Fifth Victory
The local hoopsters, unable to
stave off a determined attack, fell
victims to a fast breaking Austin
quint by a score of 47-22. The
game was played in the Bethel
gym last Friday, January 31.
The home team was handicap-ped
considerably by the absence
of Captain Gordon Peterson, who
has an arm infection, and Bob
Beck, lost for the season through
ineligibility. The team was fur-ther
hampered early in the third
quarter when "Shine" Swanson
left the game with four personals.
The Austin club got away to a
fast start and had piled up a com-fortable
25-10 lead by half-time.
The game was in the bag the rest
of the way, as the Austin buoket-eers
had an unerring eye for the
basket. The final score 'was 47-22.
Gavin, pint-sized Austin marks-man,
connected for thirteen points
to pace the victors, while Nyman
high-scored for the Indians with a
ten-point total.
Summary:
BETHEL
F.G. ,F.T. PJF. Pts.
Swanson 1 2 4 4
Osterman 0 0 0 0
Marquardt 0 0 0 0
Larson 0 1 2 1
Nyman 4 2 2 10
Appelquist 1 1 1 3
Gustafson 1 0 1 2
Halvorsen 1 0 1 2
Widen 0 0 1 0
Norstrom 0 0 1 0
8 6 13 22
AUSTIN
F.G. F.T. PaF. Pts.
Enright 4 1 3 9
Thompson 2 0 3 4
Nelson 2 1 2 5
Stier 1 0 1 2
Winn 4 2 0 10
Gavin 6 1 2 13
Cashman 0 0 3 0
Braun 2 0 0 4
Dunlap 0 0 1 0
Bisbee 0 0 0 0
21 5 16 47
first game this past week, a game
won by the sophomores.
A one-game lead in both
brackets means that it's any
team's tournament.
The Basketball Girl
There's a hush on down at our house, and we all speak soft and low—
As my music teacher'd put it, we are pianissimo.
We have quit our daily scraippin' and we don't yell things at all,
Now that Sister Marietta's took to playing basketball.
The baby's scared and quiet, and his whoops are few and faint;
Cousin Hannah's quit her jawin' and's behavin' like a saint;
And even Pa and Mother ain't as harsh-like with their call
Now that Sister Marietta's took to playin' basketball.
Sister used to be a ninny, till she tackled that new game,
But now she's got a muscle that'd put a man to shame;
And we never stop to argue with a girl that's on the maul,
Now that Sister Marietta's took to playin' basketball.
She has had her picture taken, with her team of husky champs,
And from the sportin' pages she don't ever take her lamps;
And when she gets to glarin', why, we hike for timber tall,
Now that Sister Marietta's took to playin' basketball.
All the candy givin' fellows she has chased off long ago,
And, unless he eats raw beefsteak, any beau don't stand a show;
If she walks up to the altar, Pa declares, the man'll crawl,
Now that Sister Marietta's took to playin' basketball.
—Denver Republican.